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Strong As A Bear illustrated by Cece Bell Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’sA graphically strong yet wonderfully tender book of idioms comparing people and animals. Consisting of idioms (including a few made up ones), this book presents illustrations that are sweet, funny, thoughtful and beautifully composed. The pictures tell a story about the relationships and emotions that run between and connect humans to other animals. Forceful in language, concept, and color, this book is also big hearted in how it renders children,